"Dawgs Have A Little Bama In Them" Saban

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Nick Saban put on his go-to-press-conference face and did his duty Monday in advance of The Game That Will Frack Athens Wide Open.

Or, as it’s known in these parts: A Saturday.

Big games have become fairly routine for the Alabama Crimson Tide. And when the hyperventilation begins, Saban is well-practiced at playing the role of paper bag.

There is one thing he said Monday about Georgia that bears some notice. It could be just about the greatest compliment he’ll ever pay an upcoming opponent.

“They look a lot like some of our teams of the past,” Saban said Monday. “Very physical. Don’t make a lot of mistakes. Don’t beat themselves much. And they play with a lot of toughness.

“They are very aggressive on both sides of the ball,” he continued. “That’s the kind of team we’ve always sort of aspired to have here, and it certainly looks like that’s the kind of team they have developed there.”

So, in other words, Georgia’s attempts at lifting from the Alabama model may be having some effect.

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